The Waves Attacking the Marble
- letstalkaboutamarb
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 24, 2022
When picturing a marble, I imagine a shiny small ball with many different flowing colors around it; yet this past week, our own personal marble has surprised us with a one colored spot in Central America. This last week has been chaotic, but regardless of the chaos; faith in humanity has been restored in many different ways. According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Eta was a tropical storm that developed in the Caribbean, hitting Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras. Hurricane Eta hit the north coasts of Honduras on November 3rd 2020 as a category 4 hurricane; becoming the second largest and strongest hurricanes that have hit Central America since 1998, after Hurricane Mitch. These catastrophic events have affected about 2.5 millions of people, and have caused the death of hundreds of people.
As predicted, our marble is yet to be hit by another hurricane, Hurricane Iota. Not only will Central America be hit by other catastrophe, but the most powerful one of the season according to New York Times. This category 5 hurricane is expected to hit the coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras this week of November, and according to the National Hurricane Center "Extremely dangerous Iota is expected to make landfall very soon with extreme winds and life-threatening storm surge and flash flooding impacts." Leaders of these affected countries have stated the urgency for help to fight the catastrophic impacts that climate change leaves behind and highlighting the need for united efforts for fighting what's been affected and what is yet to come. Words from Francisco Muss "I don't think we have begun to comprehend the impact of this crisis, in terms of the humanitarian disaster." And I certainly believe he is right.
Barely getting relief after the disasters that Hurricane Eta has caused, each Honduran citizen has the exhausting job of preparing for this new wave attacking our marble. This multipurpose job has not only taught Hondurans the required measures needed for taking care of these recent catastrophes; but forgetting about individuality and working as a team. According to The Intercept, "This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been so extreme that the naming of tropical storms ran through the alphabet well before Eta came along", but even though the greek alphabet runs out of letters, Honduras has proved that it'll find ways to join these letters into words of empathy and hope.
Feel free to check out the hurricanes' update here: https://es.windfinder.com/#7/14.7802/-85.6000
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